Chatelaine-hook.



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L. B. PRAHAR.

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LOUIS B. PRAHAR, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CHATELAlNE-HOOK.

SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 693,739, dated February 18, 1902.

Application filed December 6. 1901. Serial No. 84,923- (No model.)

To zr/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, LoUls B. PRAHAR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of NewYork, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Chatelaine- Hook, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a simple, light, and durable form of chatelaine-hook so constructed that it can be expeditiously and conveniently applied to a belt or band or other support and as readily removed.

Another purpose of the invention is to construct the chatelaine-hook in such manner thatit will be held to its support, but will not tend to lacerate the same.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims. l

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specilication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the improved chatelaine-hook. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section taken substantially onthe line 3 3 of Fig. l and a section through a belt or band received by the device, and Fig. 4 is a transverse sec tion taken practically on the line 4 4t of Fig. 1.

The body of the device is preferably made of spring plate metal of suitable width, and the material of the body is bent upon itself to form a front member 10, terminating at its lower end in a loop 11, a rear member 12, which is shown shorter than the front member and more or less pointed and upturned at its lower portion, and an upper connecting member 13, which is usually arched. This connecting memberis provided with a slot 14, extending through it and likewise through the upper portion of the front and rear members. The construction of the body is usually com# pleted by the addition of an ornament l5, applied to the outer face of the front member, which ornament is attached in any suitable manner and usually covers the said front member.

A spring-tongue 1G is secured by rivets 1G"L or their equivalents to the lower inner portion of the front member 10 of the body. The upper portion ofthe spring-tongue is formed into a handle l7,which extends loosely out through the slot 14- in the body. This handle extends from the central upper body portion of the spring-tongue and usually terminates in a knob or enlargement 18 at its outer end. The normal inclination of the spring-tongue is upward and rearward, and preferably where the handle 17 connects with the body of the tongue one or more rearwardlyextending lugs, spurs, or teeth 19 are formed,which lugs, spurs, or teeth normally enter a transverse channel 2O in the inner or front face of the rear member 12 of the body. The channel 2O is usually produced by striking outwardly the material of said rear member. The body portion of the spring-tongue is usually made as wide as the front member 10, so as to give the necessary strength to the tongue and to afford a wide bearing for the lugs, spurs, or teeth 19 upon the back member l2. The lugs, spurs, or teeth are shown as two in number and as located one at each side of the handle 17 of the spring-tongue. The tendency of the lugs, spurs, or teeth to enter the channel 2O enables the tongue 16 to firmly hold a belt or band, for example, in place where it is received by the tongue and rear member of the body without injury to the article, since the lugs will depress the belt or band at its outer surface and will cause the corresponding inner surface of the belt or band to be guided into the channelQO, as is shown in Fig. 3.

Then the device is to be used, the springtongue 16 through its handle 17 iscarried in direction of the front of the device, thus providing a space between the rear member of the device and the lugs or teeth on the tongue, in which space the belt or band or other support for the device is received. Upon releas- .ing the handle the spring-tongue will seek its IOO with a slot, one member being provided With a channel, a spring-tongue having its lower end secured to the lower end of the opposite member of the body and provided with lugs, spurs or teeth at its upper end, which spurs,

lugs or teeth normally enter the said channel, the tongue terminating at a point within the body, and a handle secured to the central portion of the upper end of the tongue, said .handle being of less Width than the tongue and projecting through the slot in the connecting member of the body, as set forth.

2. Achatelaine-hoolc consisting of a body formed by a front member, a rear member and an arched connecting member provided With a slot, the rear member being provided with a transverse channel near its upper end, a spring-tongue having its lower end secured to the lower end of the front member ot' the body and terminating Within the body, lugs, spurs or teeth at the upper end of the tongue, and located opposite the said channel, being adapted to enter the same, and a handle of less Width than the tongue secured to the central portion of the upper end of the tongue, which handle is curved between its ends and extends through the slot of the connecting member of the body, as set forth.

y LOUIS B. PRAHAR.

Witnesses:

JNO. M. RITTER, J. FRED. ACKER. 

